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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...agree with Mr. Joslyn that the transfusion of the mere form and technique of knowledge cannot accomplish the desired result. It is the substance that we must look at; and the true substance is the basic or molding idea...
...allied peoples can look forward to the result with confidence. The Germans must advance farther to win, whereas the Allies have but to hold their ground to defeat them. And beyond the certainty of merely parrying the enemy blow is the chance of inflicting a decisive loss on the outstretched and unsupported enemy lines by a counter-attack...
...should be not only informed, but most of all ennobled. He must be able to realize what his actions mean to the welfare and happiness of others. He must possess a sympathetic understanding, an unfaltering courage, and a keen perception of what is true and right. We look to our American colleges to accomplish this. C. S. JOSLYN...
...does not cease with their discharge from the hospital or even with the payment of their war insurance. We are moved to assist them to start an active and useful life from new beginnings not only by ordinary humanity, but by the confidence with which the men already crippled look to us for aid in this discouraging under-taking. Provision is already being made for the education and employment in the simpler mechanical processes of those not fitted for purely intellectual occupations. Manual training schools and manufacturing establishments, whose careful organization of labor on a large scale enables them permanently...
...after the war, what then? That which has occurred will probably do so again. And if we look at the Napoleonic and Civil Wars we see that they were both followed by ages of materialism. There has been an enormous destruction of material and loss of wealth in this war, and it is but natural that the thoughts of all should turn at once to building and saving. But if that is all we think of, we are gone. The young men must say, 'We will not allow things to drop while we save, but will spend our time...